News, Articles and Case Studies

20 Aug 2007

Online sales set a new record in July!

According to a BBC news report today, online sales have rocketed! They rose to £4.2bn in July, up from £2.34bn in the same month a year ago. This is probably partly due to the terrible weather we have been having; people just don’t want to struggle round the shops in their wellies. But it can [...]

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16 Aug 2007

‘You get what you pay for’

Generally in life I think it can be safely said that ‘You get what you pay for’. This of course applies to website design too. We recently had a company director from the local area approach us needing a website. After an initial conversation with him about his business and his requirements it became clear [...]

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13 Aug 2007

New billboard campaign – Award winning design

A few months ago, our creative team of graphic designers at Deckchair designed and produced a high impact billboard and bus campaign for the Environment Agency. It was designed to tackle the fly tipping problem (illegal waste dumping) in the Bristol area. When the Environment Agency approached us with the project we were very pleased [...]

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08 Aug 2007

New technology to blow your mind

I don’t know if any of you have already seen this, but take a look….It is Microsoft’s answer to the future of computers. This new technology is called “surface computing” and uses multi-touch technology to interact with the user, or users.  It is like something out of Minority Report, forget monitors, keyboards and your mouse; [...]

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07 Aug 2007

Watch out for that web browser!

    
Ever looked at your website in another browser and found that the layout has gone out of alignment or certain features aren’t working or are missing? This is probably due to the fact that all web browsers read parts of the CSS code differently and then display it on the web page in a different way. Remember, a website [...]

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07 Aug 2007

Ollie got hitched!

I had the great pleasure of attending Ollie and Sophie’s wedding on Saturday, it was a beautiful celebration and much fun was had by all. Here are a few photos from the happy event…Congratulations Ollie and Sophie, have a fantastic honeymoon!! (Ollie is Deckchair’s Creative Director).

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31 Jul 2007

See the bigger picture

Let’s face it, these days most people use the internet as their first port of call, for information, communication and of course shopping…even my Mum buys online now! So you would probably be struggling as a business if you didn’t have an online presence of some description. But let’s not forget the bigger picture; branding, [...]

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